Learning & Impact
Tragedy Turned Alumna’s Focus to Suicide Prevention
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UMW Student Lands Competitive Library of Congress Fellowship
History has been a part of Matthew Bova’s life for as long as he can remember. In fact, even longer. The UMW junior’s parents met when they were both historical interpreters at Claude Moore Colonial Farm. Junior Matthew Bova, a …
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Professors Pool Resources to Focus on ‘Compelling Courses’
To teach mitosis, April Wynn has students in her class act out the process, portraying chromosomes that divide into nuclei. The assistant professor of biological sciences hopes to replicate lively exercises like this – but virtually – in the fall. …
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Summer Science Symposium Showcases Student Research
Temperatures soared yesterday, but Allison Grant was cool and calm as she explained how climate change has disproportionately affected low income neighborhoods that are impacted to a greater degree by heat. “Redlining was outlawed over 50 years ago,” said the …
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Alumnus Earns Competitive Fellowship to Teach Constitution
Persistence paid off for UMW graduate Sam Ulmschneider. The global studies and history teacher was recently named Virginia’s 2020 recipient of the James Madison Fellowship – on his fourth attempt to earn the award. 2006 graduate Sam Ulmschneider (left), a …
